Kevin Macdonald

Born: October 28 1967
Where: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

The award-winnning documentary-maker is probably best known for the Oscar-winning One Day in September.

The film, which explored the events surrounding the hostage-taking of the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Games, also won the Camera D¿Or and Best Documentary Emmy.

Earlier works included Witness: The Making of an Englishman, Chaplin's Goliath and Howard Hanks: American Artist.

Outside movies, MacDonald is also an associate editor at the publishers Faber & Faber, where he has specialised in cinema related work, including a biography of Emeric Pressburger.

Recent work includes Being Mick, a feature-length account of the life of Rolling Stone Sir Mick Jagger.

MacDonald also made the acclaimed Touching The Void, a drama-documentary about the two English climbers who almost died after one broke he leg while scaling a Nepalese peak.